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What is behind the rising violent attacks in Pakistan?

A suicide blast in a mosque in Peshawar was one of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan in a decade [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters]

Pakistan has been reeling from a deadly suicide bombing at a mosque located inside a high-security police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar amid a rise in attacks in the past several months.

At least 100 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in the deadliest attack in a decade. A commander of the Pakistan Taliban, also known by the acronym TTP, claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack in which almost all the victims were police officials.

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